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I got 10k to build an ultimate system WOW me

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  • MeowheadMeowhead Member UncommonPosts: 3,716

    Originally posted by Dark_Pegasus

    Originally posted by apollobsg75

    spend 3 grand and the rest on hookers.

    Quality suggestion! :D Something short term and long term!

    A gaming computer will be obsolete in a few years, but STDs will last you forever?

    :(

    (On a more on topic note, I'd only spend 10,000 on a gaming computer if I could spend that sort of money every year on a new system without batting an eye.  If 10,000 seems like a lot to you, it's too much to spend on a computer, because the power-to-value ratio is totally shot the higher you go.

    ... but hey, if you're planning on buying a new 10,000 dollar computer every 12 months or so, and that's your computer budget... well, why not?

    Just from reading the topic name though, I would think 10,000 is a big deal to the person.  So yeah, about the only big purchase on a computer where the value doesn't drop rapidly is... the monitor?  I may be missing some other major component that keeps value relatively well.)

  • HUGAHUGA Member Posts: 3

    imo probably wait intill later on this year when bulldozer comes out.

  • QuizzicalQuizzical Member LegendaryPosts: 25,507

    Originally posted by bbates024

    2 x 650W power supplies

    Never, never, never buy a computer like that if they won't tell you exactly what power supply they're using.  650 W is not a power supply.  650 W is just a nominal wattage.  Depending on how much of that wattage is available on the +12 V rail(s), two GeForce GTX 580s connected to a single 650 W might well run it out of spec.

    There's no mention of a motherboard there at all.  Do you think that's because they're shipping something really awesome and want to surprise you?  Or do you think it's because it's a cheap junk motherboard and they don't want you to know?

    They don't say what hard drive they use, either.

    And they even mismatch the memory channels.  That's something that a reputable company just wouldn't do.

  • LienhartLienhart Member UncommonPosts: 662

    Don't build a system.

    Go buy a motorcycle.

    Buy a gym membership.

    ????

    Get laid.

    I live to go faster...or die trying.
  • P2PGamerP2PGamer Member Posts: 121

    Originally posted by Nuich

    As the title states, I am sitting aside 10 grand to build myself the ultimate gaming/multitasking PC. You have free reign on everything except the power supply and the video cards. I am going with a 1250 watt Corsair PS and 2 ATI HD 6990 Crossfire video cards (Not sure which brand yet though). I do want a separate sound card, something high end that I can plug into the surround sound system I am building around my PC area. I am also looking into cooling for the cpu and video cards. Before I forget do not worry about the case, that has already been bought and one last thing I do not care if the system is AMD or Intel based though I have always leaned towards AMD when I build my own systems. I do want this one to kick some ass. Thanks in advance

     

    OP, don't waste your money.  You'll just be upset in three years when you find out that the cheap desktops out there out-perform your $10k one.  Spend $2,500.  Have an outstanding machine.  Take the other $7,500 and take up some of the other suggestions that were posted in this thread, i.e... go live some!  I'll let you choose amoung them.

    Power to the Sheeple

  • LidaneLidane Member CommonPosts: 2,300

    Originally posted by Lienhart

    Don't build a system.

    Go buy a motorcycle.

    Buy a gym membership.

    ????

    Get laid.

    Seriously. Less than 2k can get someone a system that will play every game on the market and give enough room for upgrades over the next couple of years. There is no reason to ever spend 10k on a gaming system unless you're an idiot with money to burn. 

    Most of that 10k would be better spent on gym memberships, going on a vacation with someone special, or something.  

  • LienhartLienhart Member UncommonPosts: 662

    Originally posted by Lidane

    Originally posted by Lienhart

    Don't build a system.

    Go buy a motorcycle.

    Buy a gym membership.

    ????

    Get laid.

    Seriously. Less than 2k can get someone a system that will play every game on the market and give enough room for upgrades over the next couple of years. There is no reason to ever spend 10k on a gaming system unless you're an idiot with money to burn. 

    Most of that 10k would be better spent on gym memberships, going on a vacation with someone special, or something.  

    Exactly. Plus chicks don't dig computers. They dig cars and bikes....well, at least the not fat ones do.

    I live to go faster...or die trying.
  • deepspacecasdeepspacecas Member Posts: 8

    Originally posted by Nuich

    As the title states, I am sitting aside 10 grand to build myself the ultimate gaming/multitasking PC. You have free reign on everything except the power supply and the video cards. I am going with a 1250 watt Corsair PS and 2 ATI HD 6990 Crossfire video cards (Not sure which brand yet though). I do want a separate sound card, something high end that I can plug into the surround sound system I am building around my PC area. I am also looking into cooling for the cpu and video cards. Before I forget do not worry about the case, that has already been bought and one last thing I do not care if the system is AMD or Intel based though I have always leaned towards AMD when I build my own systems. I do want this one to kick some ass. Thanks in advance

    Hello there,

         We are a startup that is hungry for your business.  Your build would be completely custom to your liking.  We even offer you the chance to name it after it's complete so it can be mass produced.  There are no excess builders fees included.  Everything will be built at cost plus $50 commission plus shipping.  The $50 commission would goto to the person that email us the link to this thread if you buy from us.  We have a few questions for you about what more you prefer and are willing to go over it live by email, text or phone.  We specialize in cases please take a look at http://deepspacecase.com watch the video of our first customers build.  It contains 19 total 120mm fans keeping 2 sli gtx 480's a low 66°C under full load.  Those not familiar with the 480 it's nvidia's hottest running card to date.  The case was built to handle 4 top end nvidia cards,  currently the gtx 590.  We are more than happy to put in the dual ati HD 6990's you have selected.  A taste of the specs we'd recommend dual xenon 6 core 3.46 ghz processors, 48GB of corsair vengance ram, raid 0 sata 3 ssd's come highly recommened  with optional internal or external large capicity media drives.  Would like to know more about the case you have selected if it beats ours then it's time to close up shop.  Our cases are fully loaded mountain mods and destroy every other case hands down.  We would love to build it for you but even if you don't select us we will be more than happy to assist with picking parts and even places to get the best deals.  We build for our love of gaming not money.  Thanks

  • P2PGamerP2PGamer Member Posts: 121

    Originally posted by deepspacecas

    Originally posted by Nuich

    As the title states, I am sitting aside 10 grand to build myself the ultimate gaming/multitasking PC. You have free reign on everything except the power supply and the video cards. I am going with a 1250 watt Corsair PS and 2 ATI HD 6990 Crossfire video cards (Not sure which brand yet though). I do want a separate sound card, something high end that I can plug into the surround sound system I am building around my PC area. I am also looking into cooling for the cpu and video cards. Before I forget do not worry about the case, that has already been bought and one last thing I do not care if the system is AMD or Intel based though I have always leaned towards AMD when I build my own systems. I do want this one to kick some ass. Thanks in advance

    Hello there,

         We are a startup that is hungry for your business.  Your build would be completely custom to your liking.  We even offer you the chance to name it after it's complete so it can be mass produced.  There are no excess builders fees included.  Everything will be built at cost plus $50 commission plus shipping.  The $50 commission would goto to the person that email us the link to this thread if you buy from us.  We have a few questions for you about what more you prefer and are willing to go over it live by email, text or phone.  We specialize in cases please take a look at http://deepspacecase.com watch the video of our first customers build.  It contains 19 total 120mm fans keeping 2 sli gtx 480's a low 66°C under full load.  Those not familiar with the 480 it's nvidia's hottest running card to date.  The case was built to handle 4 top end nvidia cards,  currently the gtx 590.  We are more than happy to put in the dual ati HD 6990's you have selected.  A taste of the specs we'd recommend dual xenon 6 core 3.46 ghz processors, 48GB of corsair vengance ram, raid 0 sata 3 ssd's come highly recommened  with optional internal or external large capicity media drives.  Would like to know more about the case you have selected if it beats ours then it's time to close up shop.  Our cases are fully loaded mountain mods and destroy every other case hands down.  We would love to build it for you but even if you don't select us we will be more than happy to assist with picking parts and even places to get the best deals.  We build for our love of gaming not money.  Thanks

     

    Hey OP, does the phrase "a fool and his money are soon parted" mean anything to you?  I smell a scam brewing.

    Power to the Sheeple

  • mrw0lfmrw0lf Member Posts: 2,269

    Originally posted by deepspacecas

    Originally posted by Nuich

    As the title states, I am sitting aside 10 grand to build myself the ultimate gaming/multitasking PC. You have free reign on everything except the power supply and the video cards. I am going with a 1250 watt Corsair PS and 2 ATI HD 6990 Crossfire video cards (Not sure which brand yet though). I do want a separate sound card, something high end that I can plug into the surround sound system I am building around my PC area. I am also looking into cooling for the cpu and video cards. Before I forget do not worry about the case, that has already been bought and one last thing I do not care if the system is AMD or Intel based though I have always leaned towards AMD when I build my own systems. I do want this one to kick some ass. Thanks in advance
     http://deepspacecase.com

    Not judging in any way, just wanted to say the vid without sound is really quite dull :)

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  • deepspacecasdeepspacecas Member Posts: 8

    Originally posted by PosterTroll

    Originally posted by deepspacecas


    Originally posted by Nuich

    As the title states, I am sitting aside 10 grand to build myself the ultimate gaming/multitasking PC. You have free reign on everything except the power supply and the video cards. I am going with a 1250 watt Corsair PS and 2 ATI HD 6990 Crossfire video cards (Not sure which brand yet though). I do want a separate sound card, something high end that I can plug into the surround sound system I am building around my PC area. I am also looking into cooling for the cpu and video cards. Before I forget do not worry about the case, that has already been bought and one last thing I do not care if the system is AMD or Intel based though I have always leaned towards AMD when I build my own systems. I do want this one to kick some ass. Thanks in advance

    Hello there,

         We are a startup that is hungry for your business.  Your build would be completely custom to your liking.  We even offer you the chance to name it after it's complete so it can be mass produced.  There are no excess builders fees included.  Everything will be built at cost plus $50 commission plus shipping.  The $50 commission would goto to the person that email us the link to this thread if you buy from us.  We have a few questions for you about what more you prefer and are willing to go over it live by email, text or phone.  We specialize in cases please take a look at http://deepspacecase.com watch the video of our first customers build.  It contains 19 total 120mm fans keeping 2 sli gtx 480's a low 66°C under full load.  Those not familiar with the 480 it's nvidia's hottest running card to date.  The case was built to handle 4 top end nvidia cards,  currently the gtx 590.  We are more than happy to put in the dual ati HD 6990's you have selected.  A taste of the specs we'd recommend dual xenon 6 core 3.46 ghz processors, 48GB of corsair vengance ram, raid 0 sata 3 ssd's come highly recommened  with optional internal or external large capicity media drives.  Would like to know more about the case you have selected if it beats ours then it's time to close up shop.  Our cases are fully loaded mountain mods and destroy every other case hands down.  We would love to build it for you but even if you don't select us we will be more than happy to assist with picking parts and even places to get the best deals.  We build for our love of gaming not money.  Thanks

     

    Hey OP, does the phrase "a fool and his money are soon parted" mean anything to you?  I smell a scam brewing.

    Check the whois on the website.

  • deepspacecasdeepspacecas Member Posts: 8

    Originally posted by mrw0lf

    Originally posted by deepspacecas


    Originally posted by Nuich

    As the title states, I am sitting aside 10 grand to build myself the ultimate gaming/multitasking PC. You have free reign on everything except the power supply and the video cards. I am going with a 1250 watt Corsair PS and 2 ATI HD 6990 Crossfire video cards (Not sure which brand yet though). I do want a separate sound card, something high end that I can plug into the surround sound system I am building around my PC area. I am also looking into cooling for the cpu and video cards. Before I forget do not worry about the case, that has already been bought and one last thing I do not care if the system is AMD or Intel based though I have always leaned towards AMD when I build my own systems. I do want this one to kick some ass. Thanks in advance
     http://deepspacecase.com

    Not judging in any way, just wanted to say the vid without sound is really quite dull :)

    Unless your in germany there should be sound.  Used one of youtubes public licencesed songs.

  • karmathkarmath Member UncommonPosts: 904

    Y'ALL ARE POSTING IN A TROLL THREAD

  • AntariousAntarious Member UncommonPosts: 2,846

    Interesting thread I guess.

     

    Outside of the totally unrelated to the OP comments of course.

     

    As to the OP it comes down to a pretty simple fact.    You mention gaming and didn't expand very much on what you meant by "multi tasking".   Or even how long you intend to keep the system.

     

    Currently and in the "soon" future of gaming a 2500k or 2600k with after market cooling and overclocking will kick the ass as you say.. of any other cpu Intel has.   I have been an AMD fan since slightly before the slot A days.. but at this moment I can't really say I'd buy any AMD cpu over the 2500k.   You'd have to wait for bulldozer and see.

     

    Unless your "multi tasking" actually consists of doing high end renders.. with software that is designed to be heavily threaded.. and eat up huge amounts of memory (and over half of your budget would end up being "legal" versions of rednering software alone)...  you are not going to see any upside to spending $1000 on a cpu.

     

    In that sense if your goal is to have the fastest most kick ass system...  it depends entirely on what you are actually going to do.   If you spend more money to actually end up with less performance.. you've gone against your "goal" to simply spend a certain amount of money.

     

    I could easily spend that much on a render box if I was buying monitos/software as well.

     

     

  • deepspacecasdeepspacecas Member Posts: 8

    Originally posted by karmath

    Y'ALL ARE POSTING IN A TROLL THREAD

    It's still good practice.  ^^

  • deepspacecasdeepspacecas Member Posts: 8

    Originally posted by Antarious

    Interesting thread I guess.

     

    Outside of the totally unrelated to the OP comments of course.

     

    As to the OP it comes down to a pretty simple fact.    You mention gaming and didn't expand very much on what you meant by "multi tasking".   Or even how long you intend to keep the system.

     

    Currently and in the "soon" future of gaming a 2500k or 2600k with after market cooling and overclocking will kick the ass as you say.. of any other cpu Intel has.   I have been an AMD fan since slightly before the slot A days.. but at this moment I can't really say I'd buy any AMD cpu over the 2500k.   You'd have to wait for bulldozer and see.

     

    Unless your "multi tasking" actually consists of doing high end renders.. with software that is designed to be heavily threaded.. and eat up huge amounts of memory (and over half of your budget would end up being "legal" versions of rednering software alone)...  you are not going to see any upside to spending $1000 on a cpu.

     

    In that sense if your goal is to have the fastest most kick ass system...  it depends entirely on what you are actually going to do.   If you spend more money to actually end up with less performance.. you've gone against your "goal" to simply spend a certain amount of money.

     

    I could easily spend that much on a render box if I was buying monitos/software as well.

     

     

    rendering you say? mmmm 4 x Quadros would love to burn that one in the standard 72hrs might not be enough!

  • QuizzicalQuizzical Member LegendaryPosts: 25,507

    "Everything will be built at cost plus $50 commission plus shipping."

    Of course, "at cost" is sufficiently flexible that it means you can charge whatever you want.  Parts, labor, overhead, taxes, etc.

    "It contains 19 total 120mm fans keeping 2 sli gtx 480's a low 66°C under full load."

    A single reference GeForce GTX 480 at stock settings is not going to be 66 C under full load on anything shy of sub-ambient cooling.  If you're setting the fan to 100%, getting one with a three slot cooler or a waterblock, or using a rather light definition of "full load" (e.g., a random game in which you're processor-bound), then you can readily do that on a $100 case.

    "Those not familiar with the 480 it's nvidia's hottest running card to date."

    In both power draw and interior card temperatures (not just the GPU), it's not nearly as hot as the GeForce GTX 590.

    "The case was built to handle 4 top end nvidia cards, currently the gtx 590."

    Have fun trying to get a power supply that can handle four GeForce GTX 590s.  For that matter, have fun trying to actually use all four, as SLI support only goes up to 4-way, and that would be eight GPUs.

    Really, though, the problem with the GeForce GTX 590 isn't needing a case for it.  It's that even if you can have a case that keeps its interior temperature at room temperature exactly, that's still not good enough for a GTX 590 to be safe.

    "A taste of the specs we'd recommend dual xenon 6 core 3.46 ghz processors,"

    Ooo, gaseous processors.  I think you mean Xeon.  (That sentence will probably trigger Muphry's Law somewhere in this post.)  For gaming purposes, you're better off with Sandy Bridge.  IPC matters.

    "48GB of corsair vengance ram"

    Once you've got more memory than you have any plausible use for, adding even more doesn't help.

    "raid 0 sata 3 ssd's come highly recommened"

    SSDs in RAID is usually a bad idea, as that disables TRIM, which is the ideal garbage collection.  OCZ says that the latest iteration of their RevoDrive can pass TRIM through the RAID array to the SSDs, but if Windows sees a RAID array, it won't send the TRIM command, so it still doesn't work.

  • deepspacecasdeepspacecas Member Posts: 8

    Originally posted by Quizzical

    "Everything will be built at cost plus $50 commission plus shipping."

    Of course, "at cost" is sufficiently flexible that it means you can charge whatever you want.  Parts, labor, overhead, taxes, etc.

    "It contains 19 total 120mm fans keeping 2 sli gtx 480's a low 66°C under full load."

    A single reference GeForce GTX 480 at stock settings is not going to be 66 C under full load on anything shy of sub-ambient cooling.  If you're setting the fan to 100%, getting one with a three slot cooler or a waterblock, or using a rather light definition of "full load" (e.g., a random game in which you're processor-bound), then you can readily do that on a $100 case.

    "Those not familiar with the 480 it's nvidia's hottest running card to date."

    In both power draw and interior card temperatures (not just the GPU), it's not nearly as hot as the GeForce GTX 590.

    "The case was built to handle 4 top end nvidia cards, currently the gtx 590."

    Have fun trying to get a power supply that can handle four GeForce GTX 590s.  For that matter, have fun trying to actually use all four, as SLI support only goes up to 4-way, and that would be eight GPUs.

    Really, though, the problem with the GeForce GTX 590 isn't needing a case for it.  It's that even if you can have a case that keeps its interior temperature at room temperature exactly, that's still not good enough for a GTX 590 to be safe.

    "A taste of the specs we'd recommend dual xenon 6 core 3.46 ghz processors,"

    Ooo, gaseous processors.  I think you mean Xeon.  (That sentence will probably trigger Muphry's Law somewhere in this post.)  For gaming purposes, you're better off with Sandy Bridge.  IPC matters.

    "48GB of corsair vengance ram"

    Once you've got more memory than you have any plausible use for, adding even more doesn't help.

    "raid 0 sata 3 ssd's come highly recommened"

    SSDs in RAID is usually a bad idea, as that disables TRIM, which is the ideal garbage collection.  OCZ says that the latest iteration of their RevoDrive can pass TRIM through the RAID array to the SSDs, but if Windows sees a RAID array, it won't send the TRIM command, so it still doesn't work.

    480's oc'd to 850

    Stats by evga precision

    xenon was a typo thanks for catching it

    you can use 2 power supplies but will need a breaker that can handle 25 amps

    remember when 2mb was a lot of memory?

    trying to teach the best practice of keeping a small primary drive that houses only the os and apps and can be quickly wiped.  This bypasses trim's faults.  Use large external drives for music, video or pictures.  This also allows easy transport to other pc's.

  • deepspacecasdeepspacecas Member Posts: 8

    You can thank dell for our creation.  We look forward to never opening one of their cases again.

     

    If you know how to decode Nikon images there are more pics in the folder http://deepspacecase.com/images still in the buzz generation phase of our business. 

     

    If anyone plays ffxiv come look us up at Wutai server in Uldah near the fountain.  We are easy to find.

  • RidelynnRidelynn Member EpicPosts: 7,383

    Did you know that in order to sell a computer in the US, that you have to have a FCC certification for each distinct model that you sell?

    Even if all the components are individually FCC certified, the overall system is not until it has an FCC certification (which is required to be displayed on the external case of the computer).

    I'm sure with your custom build service you were aware of this and that you have the FCC certifications well in hand for each of your custom build combinations, along with the rest of your business legal matters.

  • spookydomspookydom Member UncommonPosts: 1,782

    Give some of it to charity and still buy a top of the range system. Stop beeing so bloody selfish :Dimage

  • TerranahTerranah Member UncommonPosts: 3,575

    There's really no games out right now that warrant that kind of expenditure in my opinion.  I bought a new gaming rig and what do I do with it....surf the web mostly because most games out now suck.  This year we may get TOR and GW2...or maybe after that Archage.  Skyrim comes out later this year.  GTA5 is in the works and so is Saints Row 3, though I'm not sure if it will be available for pc anytime soon.

     

    I don't really regret my purchase, I just don't seem to be playing anything that justifies it unfortunately. 

     

    Maybe do as some others suggested, buy a rig now and in a few years buy a new one.  Just my two cents.

  • donjuanagaindonjuanagain Member UncommonPosts: 135

    Originally posted by Meowhead

    Originally posted by Dark_Pegasus


    Originally posted by apollobsg75

    spend 3 grand and the rest on hookers.

    Quality suggestion! :D Something short term and long term!

    A gaming computer will be obsolete in a few years, but STDs will last you forever?

    :(

    (On a more on topic note, I'd only spend 10,000 on a gaming computer if I could spend that sort of money every year on a new system without batting an eye.  If 10,000 seems like a lot to you, it's too much to spend on a computer, because the power-to-value ratio is totally shot the higher you go.

    ... but hey, if you're planning on buying a new 10,000 dollar computer every 12 months or so, and that's your computer budget... well, why not?

    Just from reading the topic name though, I would think 10,000 is a big deal to the person.  So yeah, about the only big purchase on a computer where the value doesn't drop rapidly is... the monitor?  I may be missing some other major component that keeps value relatively well.)

     

    Spoken like a man thats never touched a pair of cans.

  • DrastDrast Member UncommonPosts: 149
  • QuizzicalQuizzical Member LegendaryPosts: 25,507

    On an enormous budget, there actually is a decent case for going with a high end boutique vendor that will carefully test everything in the build, even if they charge a 30% price premium for their services.  But even if going that route, I'd prefer a company that is more established.  Even a Google search for "deep space case" (without quotes) finds your site as the 33th option.  That's hardly the case for, say, Puget Systems or Maingear.

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